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The following items are animated books created using Google Slides with Ms. Conklin’s class: The third graders created Information Books as a part of our non-fiction reading and writing units. They started with an “expert” topic, one they already knew a lot about. This topic required little to no research, simply background knowledge. After the…
This post is a work in progress as students finish & tweak their animated books The following items are animated books created using Google Slides with Ms. Mangan’s class: The third graders created Information Books as a part of our non-fiction reading and writing units. They started with an “expert” topic, one they already knew…
The Project: Using Google Slides 3rd grade students will create a 13 slide presentation, one month at a time, over the entire school year. The Why? It is never too early to start building a digital portfolio and not every portfolio will look the same. But one great way to show true growth and progress…
All 4th and 5th graders are given web spaces to create, and curate, their own digital portfolios. These sites are built, and maintained, by the students using Google Sites. These sites are initially only visible to the student and their teacher. The goal of student portfolio sites is to give students a space to develop…
This post is a work in progress as students finish & tweak their animated books The following items are animated books created using Google Slides with Ms. Mangan’s class: The third graders created Information Books as a part of our non-fiction reading and writing units. They started with an “expert” topic, one they already knew…
Yesterday Google updated Chrome. One of the best features of Chrome is the ability to multiple Google accounts logged in simultaneously (previous tutorial post here) The feature is still there, Google just tweaked the visual… You no longer see the icons like this: It now looks like this:
This post is a work in progress as students finish & tweak their animated books The following items are animated books created using Google Slides with Ms. Boyer’s class.From start to finish our Rocketry unit spanned eight weeks. The children read, researched, watched, learned, documented, designed, created, evaluated and analyzed throughout the entire project. These…
As the year gets underway one of the things everyone has heard me say a lot is “Google.” I am a huge fan of Google Apps as a platform. It does wonders for collaboration, communication, and efficiency. One of the biggest perks is that with our 4th and 5th grades on Chromebooks we can all…